The National Campus and Community Radio Association is the non-profit national association of organizations and individuals committed to volunteer-based, community-oriented radio broadcasting.

The NCRA is dedicated to advancing the role and increasing the effectiveness of campus and community radio in Canada. It works closely with other regional and international community-oriented radio organizations to provide developmental materials and networking services to its members, representing interests of the sector to government and other agencies and to promote public awareness and appreciation for community-oriented radio in Canada.

NCRA membership is open to: campus/community stations; community-based English, French and native stations; community-oriented stations affiliated with broadcasting schools; and other supportive businesses and individuals.

The NCRA Statement of Principles

WHEREAS THE NCRA is committed to providing alternative radio to an audience that is recognized as being diverse in ethnicity, culture, gender, sexual orientation, age, and physical and mental ability;

AND WHEREAS NCRA member stations are committed to the principle of providing community-based programming to this diverse audience;

AND WHEREAS mainstream media fails to recognize or in many instances reinforces social and economic inequities that oppress women and minority groups of our society;

BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE NCRA holds as a fundamental principle that community broadcasting serves the needs of socially, culturally, politically and economically disadvantaged groups in society.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT member stations of the NCRA encourage programming policies that prohibit material that is sexist, racist, ageist, homophobic, anti- Semitic, or that maligns persons with disabilities or economically disadvantaged peoples.

-NCRC '87, Toronto, Ontario